In Disturbia, a teenager gets on house arrest because he punched his teacher. As he struggles to find anything to do, he begins watching people out his window. He eventually sees the old guy murder someone. His mother gets captured. Then the old guy captures him and he gets away. He goes to the old guys house to try to save his mom. A cop comes but the old guy kills the cop. The Main Character goes into the basement and falls into a mud pit. He gets out and saves his mom by killing the old guy. He gets off house arrest and makes out with the girl.

In Rear Window, Jeffry is a Photographer who hurt his leg in a car crash. He begins viewing his neighbors and notices Mr. Thornwall is doing something strange. He notices Mrs. Thornwall is missing and suspects he killed his wife. Eventually Mr. Thornwall comes to Jeffry's house and tries to kill him by throwing him off the ledge, but the cops catch him. Mr. Thornwall goes to jail. Jeffry ends up with the girl.

Both movies involve people who are confined to their house and watch people through their windows. They both involve the main character witnessing a murder and how they react. Also in both movies, the guy ended up with the girl. The movies are very different though. In Disturbia, it's a teenager on house arrest, in Rear Window, it's a photographer who broke his leg. And the key difference in the end is that in Disturbia the killer killed more people and was killed. Also the killer in Disturbia has more contact with the teenager. I think I like Rear Window better, although I usually don't like older movies due to their style, the plot and story in Disturbia was really weird.